David Lynch's multimedia extravaganza, a museum about broken hearts, and 'Metamorphosis' in Athens are the art events we'd travel across the world for in the coming months.

David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption

Who said anything about drinking? Surrealist director/screenwriter David Lynch is staging a 2-day, all-out "creative bender" at Los Angeles’s trendy Ace Hotel, smack in the heart of downtown.

Fans of Lynch's movies (Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, etc) and the soon-to-return Twin Peaks series love the auteur's distinctive, dreamy (and a little kooky) aesthetic. Expect his Ace Hotel project to bring this same sensibility in the festival’s varied line up of musical acts, speakers, art exhibits, and dalliances with virtual reality. On the agenda are performances by the likes of Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters, and ethereally experimental rocker St. Vincent, plus sets from DJ Questlove in the hotel’s psychedelic, state-of-the-art theater. Non-musical offerings include panels with Frank Gehry, filmmaker Mel Brooks, and musicians Debbie Harry and Chris Stein. Bonus: hardcore Lynch fans will want to make time to see rare shorts from his private collection. Buy a two-day general admission pass, or shell out big bucks for a set of Director's Circle tickets that'll guarantee seating within the first 10 rows for every event, plus a hardcover copy of Beyond the Beyond: Music From the Films of David Lynch.Oct. 8-9.

The Museum of Broken Relationships

The Museum of Broken Relationships, whose Los Angeles outpost opened June 4, takes the tangible memories of failed relationships—like the teddy bear you didn't have the heart to throw away—and puts them on display for all the world to see. The concept museum, which was founded in Zagreb, Croatia in 2010 following a 25-city tour of its exhibits, is the brainchild of Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić, friends who became interested in the afterlife of these special objects after they broke up. It took the persistence, though, of John B. Quinn, a L.A.-based lawyer who became smitten with the space during a family vacation to Croatia, to convince the ex-couple to license out the name (and lend him some objects) to bring the phenomenon to the States. The building, which sits on a bustling stretch of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, shares some square-mileage with destinations like the Ripley's Believe It or Not Odditorium and the Guinness World Records Museum—so you'll have no trouble checking curios off your L.A. list, should you take a trip to the area.

Check out pieces like a deflated blue blouse worn on the day of a breakup, or 'An Ex Axe,' used to chop up an unfaithful paramour's furniture, all of which are displayed anonymously alongside short, contextualizing descriptions that are at once sad, funny, and frank. Opened June 4.

Metamorphosis: The SNFCC To the World

Athens is about to get a whole lot more interesting—and that’s a bold statement for a city with over 5,000 years of history to back it up. Metamorphosis, a four-day, multi-disciplinary bonanza, will unite lovers of art and sports alike to fête the grand opening of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC)—a magnificent, 226,000-square-foot exhibition, arts, and recreation space near the city's Bay of Phaliron, designed by world-renowned architect Renzo Piano and bankrolled by the foundation of the Greek shipping tycoon who gives it its name. The complex, four years in the making, will ultimately also house both the National Library of Greece and the Greek National Opera.

The festival is helmed by two industry heavyweights—Limor Tomer, the general manager of concerts and lectures at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Laurie Anderson, the avant-garde artist—and caters to nearly every interest, featuring fencing demonstrations, a magical circus, and a street dance show, all meant to highlight the flexibility of the enormous, multipurpose space. Following the success of 2015’s “Fireflies in the Night” installation at the then not-quite-complete compound, the festival will host a reprisal, “Fireflies in the Night Take Wing,” which will include a three-day, non-stop video, shown in hour-long loops that combine the work of over 50 contemporary Greek and international artists, at eleven sites scattered throughout the buildings and grounds. Expect to also see performances by Syrian musician Omar Souleyman and Greek singer Eleftheria Arvanitaki. June 23-26.